When he woke up, feeling fatiqued again but also wondering what that power was he saw before he blacked out, he noticed that someone had stopped him from starving to death, as all food he had tried to bring to this world had turned to ashes as he arrived. When he opened his eyes he saw a man, looking a bit like a rogue, standing next to him and looking at him with interesting but also cautios looking eyes. When the man saw that he had opened his eyes he took a step back and asked him something in a langue that he had never heard of "well, i dont think there are many outworlders on earth" he thought to himself.
The man noticed that he couldnt understand him, so he got a weird stone out of one of his pockets, drew some of his blood on it and gestured for him to do the same. When he did it, he suddenly had a weird headache until he heard a voice speak inside of his mind "the chaos greets you, traveler. Am i right to think that you are not from this world and come from one of the outer worlds?" When he tried to speak, he noticed that he couldnt, so he looked back at the man with a confused look on his face. The man looked back at him for a few seconds before the voice in his mind spoke again. "I get that you dont understand how to use a lesser mind stone. To speak to me you only have to think whilst trying to scream as loud as you can, whlist not actually screaming."
He tried it and after a couple of minutes he heard in his mind. "How am i not... oh..." it seemed to just be a bit hard to find the right tone as it had taken him a while to be able to use the lesser mind stone. So, after once again knowing that this world was what he had needed he said. "Sooooo... where are we?" He asked. The man looked at him, grimacing until he shook his head and said. "We are in the crimson ravine, traveler. It's a sparsly populated area at the edge of the empire of lord Kutrunkthul. Im from a town that just got burned down by a lesser Garralishern dragon. It's sad that the village got destroyed, but even tho i dont follow the surface's laws, as in there being no laws expect love and friendship being basiaclly forbidden, im still native to this world as i know that being sad about leaving the village behind is a stupid thought, as i cpuldnt do anything about it anyways."
He looked at the man a bit curiously, but when he saw no hint of sadness in the mans eyes he asked. "Then why did you help me from starving and saved my life; i thought you wouldnt care about others?"
The man looked at him for a fewcmoments until he said. "Well, i saw you using that purpur magic of yours and as you seem to be an outworlder i would like to take you as my disciple and show you this world until you are strong enough and can control your magic good enough to live out here by your own."
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When he heared that he was a bit shocked at hraring that and asked the man curiously. "Well i would definetily like to be your disciple but can i trust you?"
The warrior just looked at him confused and with a smal tint of a smile on his face as he said. "Trust, what is that? But anyway just follow me and you can explain to me what trust is on the way."
He grumbled to himself until he stood up, got his dagger of the ground and followed the warrior to whereever he would take him
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Mark smiled to himself as the outworlder, his new disciple, stood up and followed him. When he had seen the man use that ability of him, he had linked it with the keeper, though he wasn't sure, nobody could ever be sure about the keeper. Everboy just new that it was an ancient and extremely powerfull being known also as "the true primordial". The being that had created this world, this realm, and was its religious owner, though nobody could deny that its exsistence was true. There was just to much written history about it, to many places and spells named after the keeper, so when he had seen what that outworlder had done, he immidiatly knew that he had to take the man as his disciple. It was just such a big opportunity and he just hadn't been able to let it go. Maybe he could take revenge at that surface king to kill his father after all.
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After he and the warrior had been walking for another 5 hours killing 2 more screechers and a creature that looked a bit like a hybrid of a hellhound and a GOT dragon, and also seeing and old ruined city that seemed to have been destroyed for centurys by now, they could see a large town on the horizon, surrounded by a large city wall and a lot of watchtowers with a small castle in the middle. The town seemed to be not even quite as ancient as the ruined city they had seen a couple of hours ago, tho it still seemed to be pretty worn down, as the claw marks on the wall and the charred stone of the wall itself seemed to suggest.
When they got closer the guards, who seemed to be darkelves of some kind, noticed them, a small door inside of the gate opened and a guard came out and asked his "master" something in a somehow arrogant sounding languange, probably for money or asking why they were here. His "master" said something and gave the guard a besh looking coin or token which the guard took, indentifying it. After a few seconds the guard nodded and stepped back through the door and a few moments the gates opened and his master, he might aswell call the warrior that now, walked through the gate and gestured him to follow.
When they entered the city his master got out another lesser mind stone gestured him to activate it again and said. "I own an old hut here where you will rest for the night, my disciple, as i still have stuff to do in the city until i can rest aswell. I will leave you to it then; may the nightlords not interfere your dreams."
His master than told him how to get to the hut and left for the city center. He waited for a few seconds until he followed his masters instructions found the hut, an old but still not too demolished looking building, got in, closed the door behind himself lay down on the ground and fell asleep.